God Mountains East of the Ocean


According to legends, North of Bud Ocean* was an enormous mountain range of an unknown greater than billion you** square circumference, called Reversion Yard.  The depth of Reversion Yard was unmeasurable, in fact, it is a bottomless mountain valley.  According to talks inside the valley was five god mountains, named as follows:  Tarzan's Ride, Worker's Bridge, Square Vase, Ocean Continent, Burgeon Grass; each god mountain was thirty thousand you in height and in square circumference; the distance between each god mountain was roughly seventy thousand you; the plain at the mountain peak was nine thousand you square circumference.  These mountains were resided by gods, all of the palaces were made of gold and the fences were carved from white jade.  Flowers of pretty jade and trees of greens were growing all over the mountains, whenever the flowers bloomed, the resulting seeds were all pearls and pretty jade, very colorful and sparkly.  These magical flowers and rare seeds were all edible, according to talks after eating, one would live a long life and never get old.  God mountains had just the right amount of flying animals and walking beasts, all were white.

The gods living on the mountains had everything they needed to eat, to wear and to play.  Nothing to do on a daily basis, they picked pearl seeds or pretty jade flower to eat whenever they wanted to or chased after flying animals and walking beasts for fun, did not know what worry or disaster was.  The gods liked wearing loosely fitted big white clothing; sometimes when they felt like it, they would fan their back wings to fly across the blue sky, explore the top of the big ocean, like birds flying freely.  One sudden moment flew to Tarzan's Ride to visit friends, another sudden moment flew to Square Vase to visit relatives, coming and going, had a lot of fun.

The god mountains were good but it was not perfect.  Due to the fact that the god mountains were floating on top of the ocean, there was no root at the bottom; all was good when the weather was calm; whenever the wind howled aggressively while the ocean rose violently, it was hard to know where the god mountains would end up floating to; one might float to the East, another might float to the west, none of them could stay at its original location.  God mountains floated and drifted around like this and caused the gods a lot of inconveniences.  Sometimes when they needed to see a friend, they clearly remembered the friend was in the East but when they got there, the entire mountain was gone;  or, when they wanted to find their relatives, originally the trip there should only take half a day but it ended up being the entire day.  The gods were used to an easy life, how could they endure such suffering?  Due to these reasons,  they decided to send a representative to voice to the Sky King their pain.  The Sky King was also scared the god mountains may float to the ending place and sink to nothingness thus rendering the gods homeless, and so, commanded the ocean god, Monkey Strong, to take care of the task of securing god mountains so they would never drift east or float west again.

Monkey Strong was the Sky King's grandchild, having heard Sky King's order, did not dare to be slow and immediately ordered his fifteen big green turtles to head to Reversion Yard to take up the important work of supporting the god mountains with their heads.  Monkey Strong separated the big green turtles into five groups, each group was responsible for supporting one god mountain.  One big green turtle to support a god mountain while the other two stood guard nearby, a rotation of role happened every sixty thousand years; they are to secure the god mountains like this for all of eternity.  Obviously, the movements during role change or any other sudden movements caused by a frustrated supporting big green turtle would cause the gods a tiny inconvenient but such inconvenient was minuscule in comparison to the east drifting and west floating of the past.  From that moment on the god lived happy, joyful, worry-free days for an unknown number of many years.

In the human world, happily ever after doesn't last forever, looks like the same is true for the god's world as well.  That year, at Dragon Uncle Country which was at least ten thousand you north of Brocode Hill v. 2.0., someone heard that East of the Ocean was five breathtaking scenic god mountains with big green turtles for fishing which created lots of interest to head East to play and fish.

He excitedly said goodbye to his family, took a rod and headed out, and came upon the shore of East Ocean with not more than two steps.  At first, he was only going to fish at the shore but felt that not catching a big one was meaningless, and so he went into the ocean and walked a few steps and arrive at Reversion Yard five god mountain's location.  He saw the five god mountains and felt that they were not bad.  Although Reversion Yard was said to be more than billion of you square circumference, this Dragon Uncle Country person perceived it as only a tiny little pond.  He took a few more steps and saw all of the five god mountains in their entirety.  He originally thought about taking one of the mountains home to look at whenever he had nothing to do, just like how people that came after would look at plant arrangements.  After more deliberations, however, this time he only came to fish for turtles; once he has captured a turtle, he would have no hands to carry a mountain, thus save the carrying for next time!  After being bored of looking at the scenery, the giant began to fish for turtles.   He lightly fished, after not more than two or three attempts, he already captured six big turtles suffering from unknown years of hunger.  He saw his fruitful harvest and stopped fishing, he carried the six big turtles on his back and happily traveled home.  His family cooked the turtle and ate it as dim sum and used the remaining turtles' shells for fortune telling.  Unfortunately, no one after knew if the fortunes told were of luck or horror.

Turned out these six big green turtles were in charge of securing the two god mountains: Tarzan's Ride and Worker's Bridge.  After being taken away by the dude from Dragon Uncle Country, the supports for Tarzan's Ride and Worker's Bridge were gone.  On top of that, he stirred the ocean and created waves, the two god mountains were pushed to the far north and, not long after, sunk to nothingness.

Let's rewind a little, when Tarzan's Ride and Worker's Bridge lost their supports and began to drift and float, the gods up in the mountains realized a disaster was upon them, as if the sunny day had been struck by lightning, they hastily packed their things and escaped clumsily.  They flew across the East ocean while carrying their young ones.  After settling and calming down their nerves with other gods in the remaining three god mountains, they went to report in great details to the Sky King the event that has happened.

Sky King heard, was furious and felt that the Dragon Uncle Country people must be punished for their guts to wrong the gods.  Sky King knew the people of Dragon Uncle Country were brave and fearless because they were giants, and so, he used his limitless god power and shrunk Dragon Uncle Country's land and people so that they could no longer take advantage of their size and cause trouble everywhere.  Unfortunately, the people of Dragon Uncle Country were too big, after many years their bodies were still a few ten elephants*** long.  These people also lived a long life, they could live for up to eighteen thousand years.

Two of the five god mountains sunk down, the remaining three: Burgeon Green, Square Vase, and Ocean Continent are still being supported by big green turtles.  Gods were struck by disaster, the giants of Dragon Uncle Country were punished, big green turtles were unfortunately cooked; the hidden unknown god mountains became well known after these events and everyone wanted to visit them and to eat the flower seeds that grant longevity and youth.  Together Powerful King, Swallow Calling King, The "First" King, Asian Fighting King and etcetera kings, all sent messengers to look for god mountains' medicines and treasures.  Even so, how could average people find such things?  Luckily, they could not, otherwise, the quiet gods in their fortunate land will be disturbed by a constant smog and never have a moment of peace again.

*Bud Ocean is an inner Ocean in China between two half islands.
**Go back to Story one for the definition of you.
***Go back to Story one for definition of one elephant.

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